Late Quaternary glaciation in the Hebrides sector of the continental shelf: cosmogenic nuclide dating of glacial events on the St Kilda archipelago

• Published in: Boreas
• Main Authors: Ballantyne, Colin K., Fabel, Derek, Gheorghiu, Delia, Rodés, Ángel, Shanks, Richard, Xu, Sheng
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2017
• Subjects: Village Bay; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: http://eprints.gla.ac.uk/136666/; http://eprints.gla.ac.uk/136666/7/136666.pdf

The St Kilda archipelago lies ~65 km west of the Outer Hebrides and ~60 km east of the Atlantic shelf break, and represents a key site for testing the assertion that during the Last Local Glacial Maximum (LLGM; c. 27 ka) the British–Irish Ice Sheet (BIIS) extended to near the shelf edge in all secto...